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Originally Posted by Graham
No, but it helps.
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Not sure how that line can have anything to do with not having to pay for college courses at 16.
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No, but they help.
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Colleges are more than happy to welcome people who have totally failed all of their GCSE's and wish to re-take them, from scratch. So if you went to a crap school (although in my experience, even with crap schools, its the pupils that don't want to learn that are the ones that come out with nothing, the pupils that are let down by teachers still normally manage to come out with something). So given that after leaving schools, there are still free opertinuties for people who have totally failed, what excuse do people have for choosing a life of crime? The schools aren't saying "you're black so we're giving you a crap education" the colleges aren't saying "you're black so we'll not accept you on our courses", so where is the racism?
They have the same oppertunities with education as white people, or asians, or orientals, and no one is forcing them into crime. So I think the suggestion that if they chose to go to college rather than crime would result in fewer black youths in prison and more in college is factually accurate.
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Now imagine that you look towards the bottom of the classes of students who could go to college, but probably won't because they have got poor results because they got a poor education (or, indeed, skipped school much of the time) and suddenly it's not so funny.
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What about the other people at the same school who got the same crappy education but went on to college, or got a job?
Frankly, if you are going to bunk off school, then it is your choice, your responsibility, it's not like it takes that many brain cells to work out that you need to go to school to get an education, even a crap one, and as I said, at 16 you can do the courses again at college, heck, if you go to the LEA and tell them that your school is crap and you aren't going to attend, but you would attend a college course, they will send you to the college course! (happened to a couple of friends of mine)
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And if my granny had wheels she'd have been a wagon.
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*tries not to think about riding your granny
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Whilst I don't deny that there may be flaws in the survey, the fact is that the "disadvantages" caused by racism start right from the very foundations of education and, indeed, society and that is something that should be tackled.
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Are the disadvantages of inner city schools due to racism?